Listening intently for a sound of Kito, and hearing none, Fibsy deliberately walked out of the basement door, and into the street.
The semi-darkness of the shaft showed him the exit, and it proved to be into the laundry in the basement of the house.
Then I jumped down a clothes chute, and ran out on the basement door.
There's another delegation that's going to ask the saloon keeper to keep the basement door shut when the trains come in so's to keep that beery and whisky smell out of the streets as much as possible while maybe visitors are walking about.
He kept them down in the basement because he knew that if he left them in his closet she'd give them away to a hobo on account of her always feeling so sorry for tramps and believing everything they tell her.
He had them hanging up in the basement and was hoping Josephine would wash and press them some day.
The kitchen was in the basement or in a covered shed in the back.
Country manor houses had latrines on the ground floor and/or the basement level.
Their quarters were moved to the basement of the house and they ate together in the kitchen.
The bulk of the servants slept in the basementor subordinate wings of the house.
By 1600 basement services were frequently found in town houses built on restricted sites in London.
The wealthy had basement cisterns filled by a commercial company.
The cold water tap over the stone sink could supply cold water from a cistern in the basement or hand-pumped to a roof cistern through wooden pipes at very low pressure at stated hours for a fee.
The typical London house, usually brick, was on a rectangular plan and had a basement to utilize all the space possible.
And now I WON'T take it, with the water in the basementand all.
I was talking with Mrs. Ryer about that house while I was out this morning, and she said the Hungarians moved out because it was absolutely unhealthy; there's water been standing in the basement for months.
I've changed my mind about it, and there's water in the basement besides.
And Chad picked up the basket with the remaining half dozen, and descended the basement steps on his way through the kitchen to the front door above.
The ironwork of the basement railings was unusually rich and impressive.
I thought once of opening the church basement to them," murmured Mr. Middler.
They went nearly halfway around the Square, leaving Mary Jane's shoes at a little basement shop they were referred to on the way, and then they got into a great blue automobile that took folks around the city.
But there's only one porter, and he lives on the basement underneath us, and affects the door nearest home.
We would catch a basement open in the day time, and rummage for silverware, money or jewels.
When the Jews came they started many basement saloons, or cafes, and for the first time, I believe, the social evil began to be connected with the drinking places.
A rainy night or day was sure to be followed by an opening of the rear basement windows, and a pumping into the gutter of hogsheads of muddy water.
Bonnivard’s prison—the dungeon of Chillon—is beyond the cell of execution and the last of the grim suite of basement state-apartments.
Even the very foundation has been cleared away, and the excavation for the basement filled up and the site covered with inferior buildings.
This notified the janitor, if he was in his basement quarters, of the situation of the fire, too.
In the basement of the Central High building was a well equipped gymnasium, open to the girls and boys on alternate days.
The whole of the basement floor of the casino, comprising a suite of beautiful rooms, is filled with statuary.
But it so happened that thoughtless Rachel was the one who unlocked the basement door, and it was an easy thing to slip out behind her.
I say nothing of certain wires that I had laid in thebasement region of your house.
In passing down stairs Elizabeth met Dolf, moving dejectedly up from the basement story where Vic had so maliciously disturbed his love making.
Clorinda, the moving spirit of all this commotion, rushed from basement to kitchen, and then to pantry and store-room, in a state of exhilaration that set fresh currents of air in circulation wherever she went.
This pretty fancy work was carried on in the front basement or housekeeper's room, while a bustle of preparation gave promise of great things from the kitchen.
In thebasement story of Piney Cove, the absence of Mrs. Mellen was a continued source of curiosity.
The basement opened to the street, and was packed in a moment.
I was taken to the customs pontoon on the south bank of the river, and then up the steep bank by many steps to the basement of an old temple where the two customs officers have their pleasant dwelling.
On the outside there was merely such a door as not to distinguish the house, a three-story and basement dwelling, of old brownstone, from the others in the street.
We had reached thebasement which contained the kitchens for the buffet and quarters for the servants.
The path that led to the basement door was neatly bordered with flowering plants and bushes, and sunlight was always to be found there, if anywhere in the valley, from eight o'clock till two.
The basementwas entered by a door at the end of the building opposite that by which the operatives entered the factory, and the hours were so timed that the children went and came without disturbance to themselves or others.
The school-room was a large apartment in the basement of the factory which had been used as a drying-room until it became necessary to find for the increasing numbers of the little flock more spacious accommodations.
At the door of the basement Mr. Wenck was standing with a printed copy of Handel's sacred oratorio of The Messiah in his hand.
This staircase, though now partially destroyed, bears traces of having been protected by no less than three doors between the basement and the room above.
Down in the basementof the keep is a dark, vaulted chamber, far below the surface of the ground.
He wore the white apron and white cap of his calling, but Westover heard him speak Yankee through his nose to one of the stablemen as they exchanged hilarities across the space between the basement and the barn-door.
In the bargain basement of the Titanic Store the first day of the spring opening dragged to its close.
Wasn't she down here in the basement the day I first heard about my promotion, and didn't she give me the glad hand and seem right friendly to me?
The same little sign bearing the simple words: "Office of General Sherman" was on one of the basement windows.
It has been mine since that evening, though I needed nothing to remind me forever of the hours spent far into the night down in the basement of the Sherman home.
We had pleasant chats every morning at the breakfast table, though it was nearly impossible to get the General away from the basement and his newspaper, till Mrs. S.
The General and myself sat there in thebasement by the little open fire many a time till twelve or one o'clock at night; I looking through the almost thousands of letters and papers, he smoking a cigar and reading.
After lunch at noon, he usually took an hour's nap and then went down in the basement to his work of answering letters.
Grant was the one level-headed man among us all," he said to me one night, down in the basement of his home.
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